We love a good accent color! Wasabi is a fun, bright lime green that is a brick&batten designer favorite for a modern front door. It projects bold confidence and helps your entry stand out on your façade. Wasabi can be a tricky color depending on lighting and application, so be sure to test before committing.
The Trendiest Front Door Colors This Season
To help you start dreaming up the perfect color for your front door, we tapped Kiki Redhead, the color and trend lead for industrial coatings with Sherwin-Williams. Her job is to forecast color trends by predicting how industry, product, and consumer preferences, as well as consumer purchasing behavior will evolve.
Our advice: Why not switch up your door design every time a new season rolls around? Below are 16 of the best front door decor ideas you can replicate as you get ready for winter, spring, summer, and fall.
Fresh evergreen looks even more beautiful against a sharp black door. A garland and seasonal plants can turn a stark doorway into a jolly one in no time. Whether you opt for fresh greenery or go the faux route is up to you. For a crafty take, DIY a nontraditional wreath with dried citrus or succulents, if you live in a warmer climate.
A bespoke front door can make a serious impact, not to mention start a conversation about its origins. You can also employ some crafting techniques from DIY door tutorials like adding molding patterns. Wood scraps, for one, can add some texture to a standard front door, which you can paint. A bold red door is always a favorite and pairs nicely with poinsettias during the holiday season.
Hanging baskets are probably the easiest way to transform the look of your front door. Keep the paint color neutral, perhaps a mossy green, and frame it with seasonal blooms. The ever-changing display will always feel fresh. Look for voluminous flowers like begonia, lantana, and petunia that tend to trail down for added charm.
Those who absolutely love their door color can draw inspiration each season. A lilac door looks even more stunning in the springtime if you add sprinkles of the hue to a wreath by weaving in ornamental grasses into the design.
Keep your front door untouched but form a plant wall on either side with the help of a small army of hanging baskets attached to several shepherds hooks or a frame wrapped in chicken wire. As plants grow larger, the baskets will camouflage behind all of the greenery and result in a wall-like appearance. Look for vining and bushy plants like pothos and ferns.
If your exterior door is a moody blue, black, or gray, opt for a red berry wreath to add a pop of color as a front door decor idea. A piece like this one will also transition nicely into the winter months; simply swap the pumpkins for a few potted evergreens.
Have you been thinking about doing some updates to your home? Why not start with the front door? Sherwin Williams has released their top 5 color picks for a fresh and bold front door. A great colorful front door will spruce up your home and showcase your style. Check out the top 5 color picks here.
For homes in rural areas that seek to preserve their natural surroundings and architecture, a sage green front door is the perfect exterior color scheme. Sage green shutter boxes bring a vivid splash of color and elegance to the humble yellow cottage.
A teal-colored door is a perfect choice if you live near the coast in a muted yellow house. The teal-colored front door works well with muted yellow because it brings a bright, fun, and playful element to the exterior while maintaining its sophisticated look.
For a more vibrant look, use teal-colored front doors with white trim. This pairing makes the home feel cheerful and bright. If you want to create an even more dramatic effect, add some reds or oranges to the exterior of your house.
A bright orange door is the best choice for a Tuscan-style house where all elements, including doorways and walls, are uniform but rustic. Though this option is not currently widespread, it can give the impression of being in a Mediterranean country home.
If you want a more traditional look, opt for something more muted. While you can still go bright and bold with this front door style, it will be much easier to match the color with other elements on your property.
In the Zillow 2018 Paint Color Analysis, they reviewed 135,000 homes and cross-referenced their paint colors with their selling price and how that compared to similar homes. Their report shows that homes with doors painted either black or deep charcoal gray sold for up to $6,000 more, or an average increase of 2.9 percent over other colors!
A powder blue Dutch door totally complements the comfortable, natural, and fresh aesthetic of this Manhattan Beach home. Note how the door is flanked by two matching elevated planters to frame the entryway in the most inviting way.
Another good option for a turquoise front door paint color is Teal Ocean. This color is a bit more muted than the Spa Blue but still gives a nice punch of color. And the red-orange bricks really set it off.
A door painted with gray paint is neutral and will go with planters and plants alike. This front door is painted with Sea Life from Benjamin Moore and complements to terracotta pots and lilac bushes nicely.
Red front doors are always attention grabbing and scream welcome to your guests. This glass paneled front door is painted with Benjamin Moore Caliente. The siding is painted with Nimbus Gray, also from Benjamin Moore.
If softer, muted colors appeal to you then you might want to consider painting your front door with Tree Moss from Benjamin Moore. When paired with the lovely blue ceilings on this home, it has a spring garden feeling. Ceiling: Benjamin Moore Harbor Haze, Siding: Benjamin Moore White Diamond
That being said, I narrowed down my options for front door colors to the top 7 that I felt that I not only kept seeing as I was driving around (ha!), but that go with a variety of existing stone, brick and siding colors. So, without further ado, here they are!!
A perfect example is the exterior pictured below. Waterscape is the front door color with Dovetail as the main body color and oh, my does it juxtapose nicely! I also love the bright white trim that frames out the gray and aqua for a flawless look. Honestly, I am just a huge fan of gray, aqua and white especially since it is the color scheme in my interior.
In keeping with the blue color theme, I wanted to highlight how striking navy is for a front door color. I especially appreciate how well navy pops out against a white or soft beige main body exterior color! The first color that works well for an exterior front door color is Anchors Aweigh SW 9179.
Just as Naval rocks as an interior wall color, it knocks it out of the park for a front door color as well! I love how it looks on this exterior not only as a front door color, but on the shutters too. Notice that the main body color is a soft beige color, but Naval would also pair well with a soft gray-blue main body color to keep a more monochromatic feel.
I love how a red front door is an optimal color to compliment the green landscape and foliage in a front yard. Red front doors are suitable for a brushed gold or nickel door hardware or even oil-rubbed bronze. Have fun with the accent of red as a front door color, the options are endless!
I noticed the black trend the most as I was observing the new build homes that have been popping up all over. Exteriors have been trending towards white as an overall main body color and black as a trim color for both shutters, window frames and front doors. So, if you are one that likes to stay in vogue with the latest and greatest colors, then consider black as a front door color.
I gravitate towards Tricorn Black because it is a true black color with no weird undertones. I love it on the front door pictured that has white painted siding and trim with a black outdoor lighting fixture and a grasscloth door mat that adds the perfect texture!
I love it so much, that I painted my own front door Urbane Bronze. I like that Urbane Bronze is a dark gray color that can almost, I mean almost, appear black. It almost comes off as a super soft black color in some lighting.
Again, the inspirational picture is a great model for how Alabaster looks as a front door color. One thing that I kept noticing was how impeccable the white color looked with bright green topiaries flanking each side of the door.
To wrap up the post, I sincerely hope that this is helpful as you consider what color to paint your front door. After highlighting my top 7 colors choices (with the added door idea!), you are now armed with plenty of resources and information to make the best choice for your exterior.
If you are still struggling and need help, I offer Exterior Color Consultations specifically for front doors. After viewing the existing colors on your exterior (siding paint color, trim, brick, stone, etc.), I can make the best choice for your front door color. There is a method to selecting the best color and it all depends on what your current exterior looks like and what colors will compliment it best.
Great post! My front door, interior doors, and fireplace are Iron Ore. I absolutely love this shade of dark cool gray and the contrast it provides with our neutral gray, beige, and soft white color scheme.
I actually have been thinking about yellow for front doors lately! I saw a couple while I was out driving around the other day. I would love to help you find the right shade of yellow to go with your exterior! Here is the link for my Front Door Consult:
I would almost want to say the color depends on where you live and which direction your house is facing. We are in florida and I see people with black front doors facing West. It gets so hot here to the point that you can barely touch the front door. Anything black down here feels and looks hotter. Not sure if you have experienced that or not
Thank you for your feedback! You are quite right that your location and home direction is something to consider and think through. I have not personally experienced a negative paint color for my front door, but I also have an overhang on my front porch that shades my door. 2ff7e9595c
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